Most convincing, then forgotten

[DVV]

Do you remember having read something (article, book, essay...) about a suspect that you found definitely convincing ?
Before being disappointed, after a while...

[Robert]

Hi David

I suppose I found the Farson book in 1973 convincing. In those days of course there was no internet, and if there were magazines then I didn't know of them. The next I heard of JTR was Knight's book, and that seemed to me interesting but I could see flaws.

[DVV]

Hi Robert.
I haven't read Farson but have always felt something...(I lack words)...about Druitt. Let's say I know he's not Ripper, but I wish he was.

I remember having been very impressed by the Sun articles on Cutbush. I then started reading AP...enjoyed it...but it was the beginning of the end (of my initial enthusiasm).

However, to this day, I can't think of anything more convincing than these Sun articles - except my own Fleming posts.

[eighty-eighter]

Very much so, I think the problem is there has been so many false alarms that when one day if somebody actually nails the killer none of us will believe it! I think the word is cynical because there is so much money to be made out of this business.

[pinkmoon]

Hi Robert.
I haven't read Farson but have always felt something...(I lack words)...about Druitt. Let's say I know he's not Ripper, but I wish he was.

I remember having been very impressed by the Sun articles on Cutbush. I then started reading AP...enjoyed it...but it was the beginning of the end (of my initial enthusiasm).

However, to this day, I can't think of anything more convincing than these Sun articles - except my own Fleming posts.

Hi could I be rude and ask why Druitt couldn't be our killer.

[DVV]

Of course you can.
Because he can't be Fleming, if he's Druitt.

[GUT]

Of course you can.
Because he can't be Fleming, if he's Druitt.

Why not??

Fleming was Hutch after all!

[DVV]

Why not??

Fleming was Hutch after all!

Wrong, my friend.
Hutch was Fleming, catch the difference.
But that's off-thread.

[PaulB]

Very much so, I think the problem is there has been so many false alarms that when one day if somebody actually nails the killer none of us will believe it! I think the word is cynical because there is so much money to be made out of this business.

Money? Where?

[Robert]

Money?? Ah! I have a suspect, and a jolly good one he is too. Much better than all the other suspects! I will give you chapter and verse if you'll only wate a whil longer.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

well, first time I read about JtR was in a Reader's Digest book. They said he was a Canadian doctor whose body was found in the Thames some weeks after the MJK murder. Prostitutes killed him as a revenge murder.

So I thought that was it.

Of course that same book was saying that prehistoric men were taller than we are.
So I started to have doubts.

[Scott Nelson]

Money? Where?

You mean Jack the Ripper doesn't pay the bills?